The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group
Preserving Hong Kong’s Industrial Heritage
Research into Bixby cam about because of our article, Chinese lighthouse keepers’ wives – 1930s Japanese preference IDJ says the script in the article came from… The reference came from privately published pre-war written book ‘Topside Ricksha’ by Harold M. Bixby. Believed to be of very limited circulation. As far as I am aware never produced commercially. The lighthouse comments […]
» Read moreSee: Reclamation ‘the only way to form land’, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says, defending HK$500 billion ‘Lantau Tomorrow Vision’ plan SCMP 12th October 2018 Hong Kong still needs land reclamation, Carrie Lam insists as thousands take to streets in protest against controversial artificial island plan SCMP 14th October 2018 Is Hong Kong ready to splash HK$500 billion (or more) […]
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xxxxx Source: Hong Kong’s love for Vespa scooter revealed in photos from 1950s and 60s SCMP 31st March 2018 See: http://www.vespa.com/en_EN/Heritage.html vespa – wikipedia
» Read moreNamed trains of the MTR Light Rail See: Twenty-two injured in collision between truck and light rail train in northern Hong Kong SCMP 4th February 2021
» Read moreintroduction Nick Kitto Butterfield and Swire, the Far Eastern trading company of John Swire and Sons, was one of three companies established from the partnership of John and William Swire with R S Butterfield. The Shanghai Office opened on 1 January 1867 to handle John Swire & Sons textile shipments to China which had previously been consigned to Preston, Bruell […]
» Read moreFrom Macau archives site Shipyards in Macau 1912 Cigarette factory in Macau Matches in Macauand firecrackers
» Read moreSee: Beijing ‘fully behind’ Hong Kong taking leading aviation role for China’s ambitious global trade and infrastructure projects SCMP: 2nd April 2019 Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying calls for more pilots and more routes from the airport, amid Greater Bay Area and Belt and Road Initiative projects SCMP 3rd April 2019 Hong Kong airport’s third runway project to get […]
» Read moresee online and idj sent article HF: I would like to thank IDJ for sending to me a newspaper article about K.P. Chao which regrettably I was unable to use in this article as the script was too small for me to read. HF: Chao Kuang Piu (24th November 1920 – 12th March 2021) was a Hong Kong based Chinese […]
» Read moreHF: http://www.hkie.org.hk/ea/eng/details.asp?id=13 http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2098442/local-metro-network-global-rail-giant-hong-kongs-mrt-sets-its http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/2152095/embattled-hong-kong-rail-operator-hit-fresh-safety 22nd June 2018 Hong Kong engineering body concerned profession’s integrity has been compromised by MTR Corp construction scandal at HK$97.1 billion rail line stations SCMP 16th July 2018 MTR south island line https://www.revolvy.com/page/South-Island-line Hong Kong man who torched MTR train in 2017 was unstable and tried to kill family, Coroner’s Court inquest hears SCMP 15th July 2019 No […]
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